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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
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Subject: Re: No more static `libgnat` with FSF GNAT?
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 18:04:05 +0200
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"Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> writes:
>     $ dpkg-query --listfiles gnat-4.6 | grep libgnat
>
>     /usr/lib/gcc/i686-linux-gnu/4.6/rts-native/adalib/libgnat.a
>     /usr/lib/gcc/i686-linux-gnu/4.6/rts-native/adalib/libgnat.so
>     /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgnat.so
>     /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgnat-4.6.so
>
> And here the *both* a shared and static version appears.

No. What you see is a static library and a *symlink* to the shared
library.

> Something I don't understand now then, is: if the GNAT package
> provides the library, what is the purpose of this separate shared
> library package?

Read the Debian Policy about how shared libraries are packaged.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.